Tag: Storymoja Publishers
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Storymoja National Read Aloud Campaign attempts world record.
Storymoja Publishers will be attempting to break the world record in number of people reading aloud at the same time at the Kenyan National Read Aloud Campaign on June 16, 2021. Since Storymoja Publishers were started in 2007, they have been involved in many activities that have put them at the centre of Kenyan literary…
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Storymoja Publishers officially withdraws Zimkhitha Mlanzeli’s Young Adult title “Blood Ties.”
Storymoja Publishers officially withdrew the Young Adult title Blood Ties by South African writer Zimkhitha Mlanzeli from the Kenyan market on November 1, 2019. Storymoja Publishers for many who follow the African literary scene is famous for the Storymoja Festival which has hosted some of the finest writers from across the continent. The company doesn’t…
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A lackluster Machakos regional bookfair 2016
The Machakos regional bookfair 2016 was hosted at the basketball court of the Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos on 8-11th June 2016. While it was a great opportunity for publishers to get some sales in, the crowds from Machakos County didn’t seem convinced. Every year for the last nineteen years, the Kenya Publishers Association has hosted…
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Storymoja breaks the reading aloud record
They have been threatening to do it and they have finally done it. Our friends from Storymoja have finally broken the work record for the most people reading aloud from the same text at the same time from different venues. This was at the latest record attempt on June 15, the day of the African…
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Buy Attack of the Shidaz! (Another World Record attempt)
I have featured this before. Storymoja publishers have been attempting for the last couple of years been trying to break the work record for the number of people reading aloud from the same text at the same time. This attempt was tried last year and earlier in the year. Well, it’s that time again as…
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MG Vassanji launches The Magic of Saida in Nairobi
Canadian MG Vassanji is an author with some serious cred going for him having won awards like the world was about to end in his long career. They include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Giller Prize, Bressani Literary Prize, and the Harbourfront Festival Prize. With those prizes, you would imagine that we wouldn’t have too much…